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FairPoint says new network backbone in place 

FairPoint Communications recently announced news that for a change was good: The company says it has completed the big first step in bringing new,...

The geospatial dimensions of critical infrastructure and emergency response 

The 2009 edition of "The Report Card for America's Infrastructure" was published by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in late January,...

Phase 1 Study of the Pittsburgh Compound B Derivative ^sup 18^F-Flutemetamol in Healthy Volunteers and Patients with Probable Alzheimer Disease 

^sup 11^C-Pittsburgh compound B (PiB) marks Aβ amyloidosis, a key pathogenetic process in Alzheimer disease (AD). The use of ^sup 11^C-PiB...

Emotions are inherent part of decisionmaking process 

The American legal system is based on a useful falsehood. It's based on the falsehood that this is a nation of laws, not men; that in rendering...

Is medical research in the UK in decline?/In response 

Editor - We read with interest the article by Hopper and colleagues (Clin Med February 2009 pp 22-5), however, we challenge the conclusion that...

PHYSICAL EXCHANGES AT THE AIR-SEA INTERFACE: UK-SOLAS Field Measurements 

A series of research cruises bring a wide array of techniques to bear on the problem of parameterizing processes that influence aerosol production...

What life asks of us 

By DAVID BROOKS

A FEW YEARS ago, a faculty committee at Harvard produced a report on the purpose of education. "The aim of a...

Stimulus plan saddled with old-era pork 

There is a strong case to be made for a short, sharp stimulus package to restrain the collapse of the American economy. This would involve big,...

State's first commercial biodiesel plant opens in Nashua 

When you're creating a startup company in old industrial space like a former Nashua Corp. building near the Nashua Millyard, you don't sketch out...

BAE engineers open way for FIRST robots 

The Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner wouldn't be very interesting if you had to control it with a joystick. Roughly speaking, that explains why two...